Every toy in my collection has a story, how I came upon it, why I bought it or even just some random or obscure bit of info about it. Admittedly not all of them are amazing, funny or interesting...but I think some of them are, and I'd like to tell you about them...one toy at a time.
The Story of how a perfume bottle with a grudge kicked off the Masters of the Universe Classics Snake Men.
I missed the Snake Men the first time around. By ‘86 I’d already wandered off from Eternia, and it took the 200X cartoon to drag me back in, fangs first. So in this unscripted episode, I’m going through my Classics collection of Snake Men: sleeper agents, double agents, a few guys who don’t look much like snakes at all, and at least one figure who probably wouldn’t get greenlit today. Expect head swaps, some lore deep cuts, more King Hiss than any one shelf should reasonably hold, and the usual live soundtrack of barking dogs and passing planes. Grab a snake staff (Mattel made plenty) and pull up a seat.
3 Nov 2026
The Angry One
The Story of the Dinobot who had no need for friends.Back in 1985, I wandered off from my mom at a grocery checkout and found a robot Triceratops named Transformers Slag, and he never left my side. But over the years, Hasbro quietly took his name away, the comics turned him into something a lot darker, and even his fellow Dinobots couldn’t figure out why he was always so angry. In this episode, I dig into the toy, the cartoon, the comics, and how one of the meanest Autobots ever made somehow kept fans coming back for more. Fair warning: there’s fire, there’s beryllium baloney, and there’s at least one Quintesson who really should’ve stayed out of the way.
27 Oct 2026
Never Just One Toy
The Story of the Most Powerful Man in the Universe… in Plastic.In my last Masters of the Universe He-Man deep dive, I covered the lore, the lineage and every He-Man in the bloodline… and completely forgot the toys. On a toy channel. So here’s Part 2: a rundown of He-Man figures from the 1982 original all the way to what’s coming in 2027. Expect cap guns, candy canes, a He-Man who later moonlighted as an ’90s action hero, a box that simply says “WOMAN,” and more variants than any one barbarian should reasonably need. Which ones did you have? Which ones did you skip? And did Mattel ever make one He-Man too many? I’ll let you be the judge.
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